Who is the legendary inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto? This question has been haunting the minds of people in the currency circle since 2008 and is one of the biggest unsolved mysteries of our time.
After the outbreak of the global financial crisis in 2008, someone published a paper under the pseudonym "Satoshi Nakamoto" to explain the concept of Bitcoin. In 2009, the world's largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, was officially born.
However, for this founder of digital currency, no one has ever seen his true face of Lushan. Over the past decade, many people have claimed to have discovered Satoshi Nakamoto's identity, but eventually admitted defeat. There are also people who claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, but this has never been officially confirmed.
A few days ago, Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted a post about Satoshi Nakamoto on the Internet, rekindling speculation about the true identity of the mysterious Bitcoin developer.
In a tweet on Wednesday, Musk shared a picture suggesting that the pen name Satoshi Nakamoto was just a collection of the letters that began with the names of four famous electronics companies: "Sa" from South Korea's Samsung, "Toshi" from Japan's Toshiba, "Naka" from Japan's Nakamichi, and "Moto" from The American Motorola.
Musk has more than 77.34 million followers, and as of press time, the tweet has been liked 566,000 times. The tweet sparked a heated discussion among netizens, with someone ridiculing that bitcoin's inventors were half Japanese, a quarter Korean, and a quarter american, and some speculated that Musk was Satoshi Nakamoto.
However, the above four companies are not new to the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. Musk's latest image was circulating on the Internet as early as 2017. Musk didn't add any new instructions or say what he wanted to convey.
Forever a mystery
In fact, since 2017, there have been rumors that Musk is Satoshi Nakamoto, but Musk has denied these rumors.
Musk is one of the proponents of cryptocurrency. He is particularly fond of Dogecoin, which is also accepted as a payment method around Tesla. As of Dec. 31, Tesla held $1.99 billion worth of bitcoin on its balance sheet.
While most people suspected of being Satoshi Nakamoto have denied it, Australian computer scientist Craig Wright claimed to be Satoshi Many years ago. He reportedly wrote in a blog post in 2016 that he was the real Satoshi Nakamoto and had evidence to support his claims.
Some, including Musk himself, previously thought that computer scientist Nick Szabo was the real Satoshi. Musk once replied when asked about his views on Satoshi's identity: "You can look at the evolution of ideas before Bitcoin was launched and see who wrote these ideas." ”
He said that while he "apparently" doesn't know who created Bitcoin, Saab's theory seems crucial to the creation of this leading cryptocurrency.
Speculation continues online, and Satoshi Nakamoto's identity is likely to remain a mystery forever.